- 04.06.2012 - Shredding and sorting equipment
- Hammel Recyclingtechnik will exhibit at Metalriciclo-Recomat 2012. The company produces shredding, screening and sorting equipment, complete processing plants, customized machines, stationary or mobile. Hammel provides solutions for wood waste, root stems, cable drums, pallets, railway sleepers, green waste, domestic & industrial waste, C&D, paper, plastics, stones and soil, etc. A special application possibility offered by the company is the processing of ferrous and non-ferrous metals as well as complete car bodies (ELV). The shredded, sorted and screened materials can be processed more efficiently and economically in the recycling processes already existing.
- 03.23.2012 - Sustainability of the aluminum packaging
- The conference "Technical and environmental performance and sustainability of the aluminum packaging" is scheduled for 20 April as part of Metalriciclo-Recomat. The forum is organized by CiAl - Consorzio Imballaggi Alluminio.
The conference will begin at 14.30 am in Mascagni Room and will show the current scenarios and the prospects for the definition of new strategies and development actions for the aluminum packaging industry in Italy and Europe, the innovative contributions and the guidance on prevention and technologies for collecting, processing and metal recovery. The conference is also a good opportunity to make a comparison with the models and the performance of the leading European countries in most cases characterized by different management systems from ours.
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- 03.18.2012 - Al: Italy ranks 3rd in the world for recycling
- As for aluminium recycling, Italy comes third in the world's ranking. Just think that in 2010 46,500 tons of aluminium were collected thus generating a considerable saving in energy and non-emitted greenhouse gases. In our country, 72.4% of the aluminium in circulation comes from packaging recycling: cans, tins, boxes, foil for food packaging. After recycling and accurate sorting, aluminium is smelted and cast into ingots.
"Most of our ingots are destined to the export trade: the German automotive companies buy aluminium and use it for their auto components. Recycling is an industrial and manufacturing process both downstream - recovery, sorting and processing at the foundries where new material is produced - and upstream, since the turnover in the aluminium packaging sector and of the companies producing rolled products used, for example, to make cans is equal to € 12 billions", explains Gino Schiona, Cial's general manager.
"The sector boom in 2010 was due to the fact that in 2009 the value of primary aluminium, that is scrap, dropped to $1,300/ton and scrap dealers waited the year after to sell it off when the quotations had gone up again at $2,270/ton. The recycling data depend on the consumption trend and are therefore affected by the crisis", explains Cial's general manager.
